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think that education is to be got at school or college, and the 

 process of learning left off on quitting the guidance of a master, 

 he thought that all that was good is to be learned at all times, 

 and usefully employed. On the other hand his application to 

 study was often too severe, and there is much reason to believe 

 that he laid the foundation of future disease, and undermined 

 his constitution by too great exertion, and above all by taking 

 too little sleep." 



On the peace of 1814 his regiment being disbanded, his 

 attachment to many friends he had in it, induced him to settle 

 in Truro, and commence practice here, and on the 5th January, 

 1818, I find his name at the first meeting held for forming this 

 Society, and the important announcement, that Mr. L. H. Potts 

 and Mr. W. M. Tweedy be appointed secretaries ; — with two such 

 secretaries, no surprise is felt that our society grew and 

 prospered. The authority I have quoted before, Mr. Hyde Clarke, 

 states, that in 1818, in conjunction with Mr. Tweedy. and some 

 other gentlemen. Dr. Potts originated the Eoyal Institution of 

 Cornwall, which has been the means of doing much good to the 

 county, and in the opening lecture Col. Willyams alluded to his 

 services, and congratulated the county on the chance that had 

 brought Dr. Potts into it. - 



As much time as he could spare from his professional duties 

 he devoted to this Institution, he delivered a course of lectures 

 on chemistry and natural philosophy, and volunteered gratui- 

 tously to analyse any mineral or other matter which might be 

 sent to him for that purpose. 



The next reference to him in our Reports, after his 

 appointment as secretary, is in the first list of presents received 

 for the establishment of a Museum, when I notice his gifts are 

 of the most varied character, consisting of a study of heads by 

 Kranack, a viper, a flying fish, shells, horns of a moose deer,: 

 corals and corallines, an echinus, a crystal, and various minerals, 

 a silver coin, and ancient pottery ; subsequently in 1 824 he 

 presents insects and uranite from Wheal Buller, and Mrs. Potts 

 also figures in the list (he having married a Cornish lady 

 possessing probably similar tastes to his own) as she gives shells, 

 asterias, Labrador felspar, jasper and agate. 



